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"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "elegaunt"
},
"expansion": "Middle English elegaunt",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "elegant"
},
"expansion": "Middle French elegant",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "ēlegāns"
},
"expansion": "Latin ēlegāns",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Late Middle English elegaunt, from Middle French elegant, ultimately from Latin ēlegāns.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "elegants",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "elegant (plural elegants)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1895, The Avicultural Magazine, Volume 1, The Avicultural Society for the Study of Foreign and British Birds, page 22:",
"text": "But if the Aviarist be ambitious to keep the lovely, but destructive, members of the Parrot family, he must be content with grass alone, because Parrakeets (except the weak-billed Turquoisines and Elegants) would destroy the shrubs and trees in a day.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An elegant parrot."
],
"links": [
[
"elegant parrot",
"elegant parrot"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈɛl.ə.ɡənt/"
},
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}
],
"wikipedia": [
"elegant"
],
"word": "elegant"
}
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